complex narrative

collocation in English

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complex
adjective
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/ˈkɒm.pleks/us
/kɑːmˈpleks/
involving a lot of different but ...
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narrative
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈnær.ə.tɪv/us
/ˈner.ə.t̬ɪv/
a story or a description of a series ...
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The author then takes us through a familiar andcomplexnarrativein a clear and authoritative manner.
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This is a solid andcomplexnarrative, in itself lucidly and even elegantly written, but the reader lacks some essential aids.
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Thereafter, the commissioners carefully dropped ' ' we' ' into the chapters and passages that followed, over time transforming factual reporting into a far morecomplexnarrative.
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This createscomplexnarrativestrands where desire and its articulation are attached to the body as a legible surface but that legible surface is no longer stably attached to gender.
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Emam portrays an aging rou whose misadventures form a central strand of the film'scomplexnarrative.
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Stylistically, his films were experimental, using a variety of "avant-garde" cinematic devices, andcomplexnarrativestructure.
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The series' unconventional andcomplexnarrativemade the network deviate from its traditional marketing strategies.
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Young also noted, however, that the film'scomplexnarrativeand unconventional imagery will not be everyone's cup of tea.
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In particular, critics have focused on the writer'scomplexnarrativetechnique, subtlety, and use of irony.
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However, if a show provides acomplexnarrativeconstruction and richly detailed content, viewers will be more inclined to want to rewatch episodes or segments to parse out complex moments.
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When a familiar line of action is not present, viewers with extended experience in film media are significantly better at comprehending acomplexnarrativeby filtering out editing discontinuities.
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This type of ' scaffolding ' appears to be beneficial in producing more coherent and evaluatively complex narratives.
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The focus of the intervention was children's language skills, and specifically their ability to produce comprehensible, complex narratives.
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It is much darker in tone than the first series, and attempts a slightly morecomplexnarrativestructure as well as a more significant story arc.
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One reads through the anthology as one might read other complex narratives, and realizes that not only national boundaries but also definitional boundaries are being crossed here.
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Wailes' design divides the window's main part into four rather than three stages, each one containing threecomplexnarrativescenes which are each made successfully to span three lights.
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During this time, he developed his style, his forte being light comedy, though he could also deal with drama and maintain complex narratives.
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Though a private person he loved feeling in the thick of things, the novelist in him revelling in complex narratives and intrigues.
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She always emphasised the role of women, with complex narratives and dynamic female characters.
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Ford's paintings are complex narratives that critique the history of colonialism, industrialism, politics, natural science, and humanity's effect on the environment.
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